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William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Title: William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Correspondence (chiefly letters received), articles, poems, speeches, book reviews, diaries and journals, miscellaneous notebooks, scrapbooks, clippings, and other printed material. Correspondence concerns Thayer's writings, particularly in the area of Italian history, and his connections with Harvard as editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine and later as an overseer. Also included are some miscellaneous papers of William Warland Clapp, a Boston journalist; and some papers of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, chiefly from a European trip made by Higginson in 1872.

ArchivalResource: 48 linear feet (96 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00563/catalog View

Harrison, Henry Sydnor, 1880-1930. Papers, 1894-1958.

Title: Papers, 1894-1958.

Correspondence, clippings, and miscellaneous papers, relating chiefly to Harrison's earlier novels. The clippings are poems written while he was on the staff of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and book reviews of his works. Subjects include publishers and publishing in the U.S., Munsey's Magazine, John Stewart Bryan, and Collier Cobb. Correspondents include Irving Addison Bachellor, Milledge Louis Bonham, Jr., James Branch Cabell, Josephus Daniels, Max Forrester Eastman, John Erskine, Ferris Greenslet, Henry Louis Mencken, Philip James Roosevelt, Ellery Sedgwick, Julian Street, Hendrik Willem Van Loon, and James Howard Whitty.

ArchivalResource: 1, 163 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19642666 View

Wisdom, William B. William B. Wisdom collection of Thomas Wolfe. 1909-1959.

Title: William B. Wisdom collection of Thomas Wolfe

Papers of American novelist Thomas Wolfe.

ArchivalResource: 156 boxes (78 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00435/catalog View

Edward Kennard Rand correspondence and other papers, 1900-1945.

Title: Edward Kennard Rand correspondence and other papers, 1900-1945.

Papers of American classicist, medievalist and Harvard University professor,Edward Kennard Rand.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02259/catalog View

Papers, 1911-1944 (inclusive), 1929-1937 (bulk).

Title: Papers, 1911-1944 (inclusive), 1929-1937(bulk).

Papers of American biographer, editor, historian, and poet MarkAnthony de Wolfe Howe.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00947/catalog View

Norton, Sara, b. 1864,. Condolences on the death of Charles Eliot Norton, 1908-1909.

Title: Condolences on the death of Charles Eliot Norton, 1908-1909.

Contains letters and cards of condolence, as well as telegrams, cables, funeral arrangements and obituaries related to the death of Charles Eliot Norton. Includes letters from Charles Francis Adams, Edward Waldo Emerson, Ferris Greenslet, Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Francis Greenwood Peabody.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.33 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79390094 View

On Publishing the Letters of Vincent van Gogh, Constable Correspondence, 1935-1938.

Title: On Publishing the Letters of Vincent van Gogh, Constable Correspondence, 1935-1938.

A series of letters between Otto Kyllmann of Constable & Co. and the owner of van Gogh's letters, Vincent Wilhem van Gogh, over the publication of the artist's correspondence. The file also contains extensive correspondence with rival publishers Houghton, Mifflin and Co. and Viking Press, and with Ferris Greenslet and Walter Pach. The book manuscripts discussed were "Vincent van Gogh's Great Period" and "Further Letters of Vincent van Gogh.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 c.f. (1 archives folder).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86166224 View

Yaddo records, 1870-1980

Title: Yaddo records 1870-1980

Yaddo is an artists' community located in Saratoga Springs, New York. The Yaddo Records contain the administrative records of The Corporation of Yaddo since its establishment in 1900, as well as the institutional records of Yaddo from 1926, the year Yaddo began accepting guests. Notable guests have included Newton Arvin, John Cheever, Aaron Copland, Malcom Cowley, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, and Clyfford Still. The Yaddo Records also include the personal papers of Yaddo's principal founders, Spencer and Katrina Trask, and George Foster Peabody.

ArchivalResource: 190 linear feet; 550 boxes, 51 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/4795 View

James Russell Lowell papers, 1835-1919.

Title: James Russell Lowell papers, 1835-1919.

Papers of American author, poet, editor, teacher, and diplomat James Russell Lowell.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes (8 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00365/catalog View

Frances Hubbert papers, Hubbert (Frances) papers, 1936-1957 and undated, (bulk 1936-1938)

Title: Frances Hubbert papers Hubbert (Frances) papers 1936-1957 and undated (bulk 1936-1938)

The collection is comprised of letters sent to Frances Hubbert (1894-1967) of Newport, Rhode Island, regarding her efforts to have Lady Winifred Fortescue’s (1888-1951) 1935 publication, published in the United States. Perfume from Provence,

ArchivalResource: .08 linear feet (2 folders)

http://library.brown.edu/riamco/render.php?eadid=US-RNR-ms539&view=title View

Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records, 1832-1944.

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records, 1832-1944.

Records of Houghton Mifflin and its predecessors, containing papers relating to both the printing and publishing branches of the business. Includes a voluminous file of incoming letters, chiefly post-1870, from authors published by the firm; some correspondence with other publishers; a few compositions; and a small file of editorial correspondence of The Atlantic Monthly. Includes 2 drawing illustrations by Frances Lester Warner: At home with variations; and Sunlight sonata, Family life with variations. Also 3 pen and ink drawing illustrations by Warner: Geoffrey went politely to the edge of the roof, and gazed down, from Fire in the sky; and From Diet and the Daily Dozen Exercise, said Endicott, is not at its best without a by-product...

ArchivalResource: 169 boxes (64 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612375900 View

Sedgwick, Anne Douglas, 1873-1935. Letters of Anne Douglas Sedgwick [manuscript], 1902-1935.

Title: Letters of Anne Douglas Sedgwick [manuscript], 1902-1935.

The collection consists of 25 letters, chiefly from Anne Douglas Sedgwick discussing the publication of "Dark Hester," "Forsaken Temple," "The Old Countess," and "Phillipa"; literary contract negotiations; travel; Ferris Greenslet; Miss Sinclair (May Sinclair?); the real-life model for "Alix"; and the death of her mother. A letter from her husband Basil de Selincourt discusses her death. Correspondents include Basil de Selincourt, Miss French, Richard Watson Gilder, and Otto Kyllmann.

ArchivalResource: 25 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647906349 View

George M. Gould Collection of Hearniana, 1877-1931

Title: George M. Gould Collection of Hearniana 1877-1931

Physician and author. Correspondence, writings, and other material by and about Lafcadio Hearn collected by Gould.

ArchivalResource: 2,700 items; 9 containers; 3.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013014 View

Greenslet, Ferris, 1875-1959,. Autograph letter signed from Ferris Greenslet, New York, to Mrs. Aldrich [manuscript], 1907 November 9.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Ferris Greenslet, New York, to Mrs. Aldrich [manuscript], 1907 November 9.

Greenslet speaks of entertaining Mr. Child, who sends his regards. He writes that he has not heard from Winter and asks Mrs. Aldrich to drop him a line. On letterhead of The Players, Sixteen Gramercy Park. Addressed to Mrs. Aldrich, likely Mrs. Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 21 x 13 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/688486324 View

Greenslet, Ferris, 1875-1959. Typed letter signed Ferris Greenslet to: "Dear Mrs. Chase" January 17, 1917.

Title: Typed letter signed Ferris Greenslet to: "Dear Mrs. Chase" January 17, 1917.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70815438 View

Greenslet, Ferris, 1875-1959. Letter to Owen Wister [manuscript] 1908 March 17.

Title: Letter to Owen Wister [manuscript] 1908 March 17.

Greenslet, writing for Houghton, Mifflin & Co. suggests that Wister write a novel about the earlier life of Abraham Lincoln similar to one by Mary Johnston on Thomas Jefferson. A holograph by Wister comments "No. certainly not--"

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647947618 View

Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman), 1868-1920. Papers of Eleanor H. Porter [manuscript], 1903-1936 (bulk 1905-1920).

Title: Papers of Eleanor H. Porter [manuscript], 1903-1936 (bulk 1905-1920).

The collection contains manuscript and typescript drafts, frequently with pencilled corrections, and/or printed versions of over 30 short stories and the serialized novel "Money, Love and Kate" as well as galley sheets for "Mary Marie." Topics in her correspondence include bookings for the play "Dawn"; royalties; Swedish translation of "Oh, Money! Money!" the dramatization of "Just David"; a controversy over property rights to the name "Pollyanna"; her books "A Minstrel of the Hills," "Money, Love and Kate," "The Nickel," and "The Story of Marco Polo"; copyright to her short stories; and motion picture rights to "Sister Sue." There is also correspondence of John Lyman Porter as executor of her estate. In addition the collection contains legal papers including book contracts and a copy of her will; photographs of Porter and of Fred C. Hodgman; photograph albums of vacation and nature scenes and printed miscellaney.

ArchivalResource: 500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647840544 View

Houghton Mifflin Company. Correspondence with Mary Austin, 1904-1929.

Title: Correspondence with Mary Austin, 1904-1929.

175 letters from Mary Austin; 195 carbon copies of letters to her. Chiefly correspondence with Ferris Greenslet concerning the publication of her books.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 392:12) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/215446103 View

Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence, 1881-1981 (inclusive), 1940-1979 (bulk).

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence, 1881-1981 (inclusive), 1940-1979 (bulk).

Correspondence is between Houghton Mifflin Company and the authors they published. Houghton Mifflin Company editors and staff include Paul Brooks, Ferris Greenslet, and Robert Newton Linscott, among others. Authors include Ansel Adams, James Agee, Isaac Asimov, Elizabeth Bishop, Rachel Carson, John Dos Passos, Martha Foley, Esther Forbes, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Howard Griffin, Archibald MacLeish, Carson McCullers, Roger Tory Peterson, H.A. (Hans Augusto) Rey, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, and many others. In addition to correspondence with authors, the files can contain book jackets, correspondence with literary agents and with other publishers, compositions, contracts, interoffice memoranda, jacket blurbs, photographs, and press releases.

ArchivalResource: 174 boxes (44 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612680489 View

Witter Bynner papers, 1829-1965.

Title: Witter Bynner papers, 1829-1965.

Correspondence and compositions of American poet and translator Witter Bynner.

ArchivalResource: 99 boxes (49.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00668/catalog View

Day, Clarence, 1874-1935. Papers: 1900-1925.

Title: Papers: 1900-1925.

The collection contains over 60 letters from Day to Mary Lyon whose writing Day encourages. He offers story ideas, improvements on the plots and other criticism, and suggests publishers. He discusses his rheumatism, his depression, massage therapy and sessions with his psychotherapist David Seabury, but seldom mentions his own writing. Many of his letters are illustrated with humorous sketches. In addition there is a letter from Lyon to Day annotated by Lyon, a letter from Louise Godfrey Irwin rejecting a Lyon story, a postal card to Franklin Spier conveying 4 drawings, the manuscript of, Sonnets in a garden, by Mary Lord, an untitled manuscript on a crescograph by Day, and a photograph of Day. The remainder of the collection consists of the correspondence of Day protʹegʹe Arthur Johnson, a Boston writer whose short stories Day attempted to market. There are letters to Day and Johnson from editors of several magazines, accepting, rejecting and suggesting changes to various stories. With these are two letters from Day to Johnson including one discussing Ibsen and doubting his own ability. Some of the correspondents include: William Rose Benʹet, Robert Bridges, Herbert David Croly, Wilbur L. Cross, Douglas Zabriskie Doty, Sue Goree, Ferris Greenslet, Lee Foster Hartman, Carl Hovey, Louise Godfrey Irwin, Arthur Franklin Johnson, Alfred A. Knopf, Mary Lord, Mary Lyon, Fanny R. Poole, Arthur W. Rushmore, Elizabeth Shurtliff, Edgar Grant Sisson, Franklin Spier, David Seabury, Julia Tutwiler, Thomas B. Wells, George Wheelock, Churchill Williams, Atlantic montly, Bellman magazine, Harper's magazine, Lippincott's magazine, Saturday evening post, and Scribner's magazine.

ArchivalResource: 152 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122632059 View

Greenslet, Ferris, 1875-1959,. Typed letters signed from Ferris Greenslet, Boston, to William Winter [manuscript], 1907.

Title: Typed letters signed from Ferris Greenslet, Boston, to William Winter [manuscript], 1907.

Concerning work on a memoir on Mr. Aldrich.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/667626181 View

Wilson, Francis, 1854-1935. Francis Wilson papers, 1875-1958.

Title: Francis Wilson papers, 1875-1958.

The collection contains correspondence, speeches, accounts, clippings, scripts and other papers reflecting the personal and professional life of Francis Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 3.25 lin. ft. (8 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122598369 View

Joseph Barnes Papers, 1923-1970

Title: Joseph Barnes Papers, 1923-1970

ArchivalResource: 18.5 linear ft. (ca.18,000 items in 40 boxes).

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079827 View

Joseph Barnes Papers, 1923-1970

Title: Joseph Barnes Papers, 1923-1970

ArchivalResource: 18.5 linear ft. (ca.18,000 items in 40 boxes).

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079827 View

Day, Clarence, 1874-1935. Papers of Clarence Day [manuscript], 1900-1925.

Title: Papers of Clarence Day [manuscript], 1900-1925.

The collection contains over 60 letters from Day to Mary Lyon whose writing Day encourages. He offers story ideas, improvements on the plots and other criticism, and suggests publishers. He discusses his rheumatism, his depression, massage therapy and sessions with his psychotherapist David Seabury, but seldom mentions his own writing. Many of his letters are illustrated with humorous sketches. In addition there is a letter from Lyon to Day annotated by Lyon, a letter from Louise Godfrey Irwin rejecting a Lyon story, a postal card to Franklin Spier conveying four drawings, the manuscript of "Sonnets in a garden" by Mary Lord, an untitled manuscript on a crescograph by Day, and a photograph of Day. The remainder of the collection consists of the correspondence of Day protogé Arthur Johnson, a Boston writer whose short stories Day attempted to market. There are letters to Day and Johnson from editors of several magazines, accepting, rejecting and suggesting changes to various stories. With these are two letters from Day to Johnson including one discussing Ibsen and doubting his own ability.

ArchivalResource: 152 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647833052 View

Houghton Mifflin Company. Correspondence with Elizabeth Robins Pennell, 1930.

Title: Correspondence with Elizabeth Robins Pennell, 1930.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63643177 View

Wendell family papers

Title: Wendell family papers

Correspondence, business papers, and compositions by members of the Wendell family, a prominent merchant family from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

ArchivalResource: 46 linear feet (93 boxes and 1 folder)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01421/catalog View

Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Contracts (with associated materials) of the Houghton Mifflin Company publishing house of Boston, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (48 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00239/catalog View

Willcox, Louise Collier, 1865-1919. Papers of Louise Collier Willcox, 1870-1933.

Title: Papers of Louise Collier Willcox, 1870-1933.

Papers of Willcox consist chiefly of letters to her from other American authors regarding inclusion in her anthologies. With the letters are magazine photos and clippings. The collection also contains the manuscript of a poem by Willcox, and photographs of her and family/friends. Of interest is a letter, 1906 June 9, Lago Maggiore, Italy, from Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy mentioning Edward Carptenter's book on Walt Whitman, Oriental writings, and Zend-Avesta, as well as expressing her thoughts on people helping each other and on her feelings of loneliness the past ten years. Other correspondents include Henry M. Alden, James Lane Allen, Henry Charles Beeching, Hilaire Belloc, Arnold Bennett, A.C. Benson, Abbie Farwell Brown, Alice Brown, Trigant Burrow, H. Price Collier, William Crary Brownell, Edward Carpenter, John Vance Cheney, H. Price Collier, John Dewey, Edward Dowden, Edna Ferber, Kuno Francke, Richard Watson Gilder, Lawrence Gilman, Ferris Greenslet, Philip Hale, Lizzie Allen Harker, George Harvey, Robert Underwood Johnson, Gerald Stanley Lee, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Edward S. Martin, Alice Meynell, Eveleen Myers, Bliss Perry, E.C. Pickering, Margaret Prescott Montague, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Boris Sidis, and Horace Traubel.

ArchivalResource: 88 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50061815 View

Evans, Ernestine, 1889-1967. Ernestine Evans papers, 1930-1965.

Title: Ernestine Evans papers, 1930-1965.

Correspondence and manuscripts of Evans, relating to her editorial work and to her friendship with the family of film director, Robert J. Flaherty.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/493896211 View

Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley, 1881-1965. Papers of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant [manuscript] 1894-1961.

Title: Papers of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant [manuscript] 1894-1961.

The bulk of the papers pertain to Miss Sergeant's "Robert Frost, The trial by existance," 1960. There are 6 original poems by Frost, and several letters from Frost & Elinor Miriam White Frost to Miss Sergeant. In addition there are many transcripts & photocopies of letters & poems. Also, Miss Sergeant's notes on her conversations with Frost, drafts of the biography in holograph & typescript form, as well as, galley, page and foundry proofs, together with her research notes, & magazine articles regarding Robert Frost newsclippings, and photographs. Miss Sergeant's correspondence relates to the biography and includes letters from the following people: Catherine Abercrombie, Frederick Benjamin Adams, Lesley Frost Ballantine, Isadora Bennett, Joseph Blumenthal, Nancy Hale, Van Wyck Brooks, Reuben Arthur Brower, Witter Bynner, Eleanor Farjean, Ferris Greenslet, John Holmes, Henry Holt and Co., New York, N.Y., David Thompson Watson McCord, Lincoln MacVeagh, Jean Starr Untermeyer, Mark Van Doren, Lawrence Sidney Thompson and Harriet Fox Whicher. In addition, there are ten letters, 1958-61, with Marianne Moore and twenty letters, 1954-61, from Thornton Wilder [RESTRICTED].

ArchivalResource: 1,700 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647943138 View

Houghton Mifflin Company. Letter to Agnes Repplier, 1935.

Title: Letter to Agnes Repplier, 1935.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155896211 View

Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence, 1881-1981 (inclusive), 1940-1979 (bulk).

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence, 1881-1981(inclusive), 1940-1979 (bulk).

Editorial correspondence of Houghton Mifflin Company, publishing house ofBoston, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 174 boxes (44 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00119/catalog View

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907. Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Title: Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Chiefly letters to Thomas Bailey Aldrich and letters to his wife, Lilian Woodman Aldrich. Includes editorial correspondence from Aldrich's years as editor of The Atlantic Monthly and letters from others concerning Aldrich's own writings. Correspondents include: Henry Mills Alden, Arlo Bates, Th. Bentzon, Edwin Booth, Edgar Fawcett, Annie Fields, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Richard Watson Gilder, Ferris Greenslet, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Dean Howells, Archer M. (Archer Milton) Huntington, Helen Hunt Jackson, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Charles Eliot Norton, H. W. (Harriet Waters) Preston, Frank Dempster Sherman, Edward Rowland Sill, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Bayard Taylor, Edith Matilda Thomas, Mark Twain, Henry Van Dyke, Charles Dudley Warner, Richard Grant White, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and George Edward Woodberry. Family correspondence includes a long series of letters by Aldrich to Lillian Woodman before their marriage. Many of the letters, principally those to Mrs. Aldrich, are largely of a social nature. Also includes a small group of financial records, invitations, menus, and other ephemera.

ArchivalResource: 19 boxes (6.3 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612365364 View

Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939. Constable Correspondence, 1915-1939.

Title: Constable Correspondence, 1915-1939.

A series of letters from a British philosopher and psychologist to Otto Kyllmann of Constable? "The Task of Social Hygiene, ""The Philosophy of Conflict," "World of Dreams," "Sex in Relation to Society," and "Studies in the Psychology of Sex."

ArchivalResource: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box, 3 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122541713 View